In the united states American taxpayers pay approximately $80 billion toward annual prison costs every year, yet few understand where that money goes. From this data set I primary will be analyzing demographics in the California state prison becasue California has a great population than the whole Canada. This data will have be prison data from 1970 to 2018. I was surprised by my findings from this data, When I first started this assignment, I had an assumption that black people would account for at least 50% - 70% of prison population but I was proven wrong from the data I found. There were approximately 23578 black people, 25074 Latinx people, 425 Asian Americans,169 native american, and 9945 white people.
This below is the chart that show the trend over time. It shows how many people and what race were incarcerated the most from 2000 to 2015. There is high black population in prison in the whole US. White is the second highest in the us and Latin is third and native and Asian are the least in thew whole country.
This chart below shows how many black people were arrested. The prison population for black people was the highest in 2007 and this is across the country nont only in the state of California. After doing this assignment I figured out there is more Latin prisoners in the state of California than black people.
Below is a map of California showing the trend of the black prison population. Throughout the years in time. We can see that the numbers are not that high in some places and there are some other races that are higher than black. For the most part is is low because it is colored yellow, the yellow represents a small value or a value close to 0. On the other hand the red represents high black population in prison, if the the color looks like orange then the number is in the mean interval.
In general, I was surprised by what I found from this data, I started this assignment thinking there is more black people in prison in California but I was wrong, There are more Latinx people in California prison than black. In movies, there seem to be a lot more black people in prison but it is completely different. There is also other rumors or assumptions that make people think there would be more black people in prison such as racism, stereotyping, movies, police brutality and so much more.